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Medal of Honor Recipient

Albert E. Baesel

U.S. Army · World War I

MOH-RC-001939Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1904 Army design, early suspension ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1922

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Medal of Honor

September 27, 1918

near Ivoiry, France

Rank at action
Second Lieutenant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
World War I
Unit or command
Company B, 148th Infantry, 37th Division
Presentation date
December 31, 1922

The Citation

Sources ↓
Upon hearing that a squad leader of his platoon had been severely wounded while attempting to capture an enemy machinegun nest about 200 yards in advance of the assault line and somewhat to the right, 2d Lt. Baesel requested permission to go to the rescue of the wounded corporal. After thrice repeating his request and permission having been reluctantly given, due to the heavy artillery, rifle, and machinegun fire, and heavy deluge of gas in which the company was at the time, accompanied by a volunteer, he worked his way forward, and reaching the wounded man, placed him upon his shoulders and was instantly killed by enemy fire.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Albert E. Baesel — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-30

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-001947
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
43
Entered service at
Berea, Ohio
Archive transcription SHA-256
b4ba11aa16037e7cba90d1d986616d6c6c2b257194fa0474b8063ed886d45c17

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

The current profile supplies rank at time of action as Second Lieutenant; the inherited rank field remains preserved as None. The current source records Company B, 148th Infantry, 37th Division; the inherited unit field 148th Infantry, 37th Division remains preserved as a source variant. The current historical action-place wording replaces only the controlled canonical geocoder field; the complete inherited place remains preserved. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under World War I; the inherited unclassified value remains preserved in the audit record.

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